Quality Reporting

CMS is encouraging home health agencies to strive for best quality of patient care. To help facilitate this, CMS provides benchmarks and quality indicators Globe to indicate www link. within the OASIS assessment, some of which are available to the public on Home Health Compare. Globe to indicate www link. Many of the quality indicators are also OASIS items affecting reimbursement. 

Although Cahaba is very concerned about quality of patient care, our primary focus must remain to pay your claims correctly.  CMS has contracted with Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs) Globe to indicate www link. to assist providers in obtaining the most efficient routes to best quality of care.  Home health agencies should check with the QIO for their state to receive clarification for issues relating to quality of care.  

Home health providers should be aware that Medicare reimbursement may be further impacted by a 2 percent reduction as required by the Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) if quality data is not reported.  For more information, refer to page 49861 of the August 29, 2007 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 167. Globe to indicate www link.

Page last updated: November 25, 2008

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